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Koolaid wrote:
i feel like this thread is exactly the reason why asexuality deserves a spot in pride

ouch wrote:
I call everyone here acephobic now
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_against_asexual_people

ouch wrote:
I call everyone here acephobic now
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_against_asexual_people

acidreflux wrote:
man i have a crazy lot amount of issues w that wiki
but one that struck me was "assuming everyone is straight".
well the majority of the world's population is indeed actually straight, so it's rightful to assume most ppl are straight unless they tell u otherwise.

lean wrote:
i refuse to read the ace wiki lmfao read it once was a pile of garbage never again

acidreflux wrote:
so much of the discrimination on it is .... either misdirected homophobia or ppl being assholes, but there's no institutional discrimination, the laws are all derivatives of anti-gay laws and it essentially boils down to "ppl have bad "attitudes"".

in short, i find it to be something that ppl make problems for themselves for.

lean wrote:
it's a user made biased wiki so people have something to point to.
but as you said it doesn't actually mention systemic oppression or real discrimination. it's just like "people make assumptions about me." wheares you go to the anti-gay wiki and it's facts and actual events and coumentation of serious systemic oppression including murder, wrongful conviction, countries where being gay is illegal and can result in execution. 

Melk wrote:
it’s a sexual minority so yes

lean wrote:
so are kinksters and poly people.

pride was a riot and is a protest first and foremost. specifically for safety and equality for people who's sexuality and gender has systemically been oppressed. no one is denying ace people rights, no one is bashing them on the street, there's no such thing as ace panic.
sure an asexual person's relationship dynamic will be different but that's not a systemic issue it's a personal one. there's no material evidence of legitimate ~aphobia~.

and like.... i'm saying this not as someone who just doesn't understand but as someone who id'd as ace for multiple years and thought that ace people did belong in the lgbt community. 

lean wrote:
so are kinksters and poly people.

pride was a riot and is a protest first and foremost. specifically for safety and equality for people who's sexuality and gender has systemically been oppressed. no one is denying ace people rights, no one is bashing them on the street, there's no such thing as ace panic.
sure an asexual person's relationship dynamic will be different but that's not a systemic issue it's a personal one. there's no material evidence of legitimate ~aphobia~.

and like.... i'm saying this not as someone who just doesn't understand but as someone who id'd as ace for multiple years and thought that ace people did belong in the lgbt community.